# Sell Mineral Rights in Washington County, TX | Berlin > Sell Washington County, TX mineral rights: Giddings Austin Chalk gas royalties near Brenham and Burton, countywide. Free valuation with the work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/washington-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Texas · Washington County ## Sell your Washington County mineral rights. Brenham, Burton, Chappell Hill: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Washington County, in the gas-rich southern end of the Giddings Austin Chalk. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Washington County is Brenham, bluebonnets, and the deep southern end of the Giddings chalk, which here makes more gas and condensate than oil. Magnolia has permitted 23 wells in the county this year, GeoSouthern is drilling 13,500-foot allocation wells, and on the shallow end Aethon is punching 2,000-foot Clay Creek wells near Chappell Hill. It is a short operator list and a lot of landowners who did not know the chalk under their pasture was still being drilled. **What produces here.** Railroad Commission production for August 2026: 34,835 barrels of oil, 450,158 barrels of condensate, and about 6.2 million Mcf of gas (139,000 casinghead, 6.06 million gas well), from only 10 fields: Giddings (Austin Chalk-3) and Giddings (Austin Chalk, Gas) make almost all of it, with Clay Creek, Navasota River (Lower Cretaceous), and Wind Hill (Taylor) the remainder. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Magnolia Oil and Gas (most of the county), GeoSouthern Operating II, WildFire Energy Operating (now part of Magnolia), Verdun Oil and Gas, Hyperion Oil and Gas, Paleo Oil, Redbud E and P, and Aethon Energy Operating. The Commission approved 43 new drilling permits in 2026 through November 7, 26 of them horizontal: Magnolia 23 (the Big Al, Buzz, Means C and MacArthur wells at 12,000 feet), Aethon 17 (vertical Clay Creek East and West Unit wells at 2,000 feet, the latest approved October 29), and GeoSouthern 3 (the GSWF Alpha and Bravo allocation wells, approved October 2). Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. Inherited it? Start with [inherited mineral rights in Texas](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/texas/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Giddings (Austin Chalk-3) The southern, deeper, gas-and-condensate end of the Giddings chalk, drilled at about 12,000 feet, where Magnolia makes most of the county's 6 million Mcf a month. ### Giddings (Austin Chalk, Gas) The gas-classified chalk wells, GeoSouthern's main position, which add another 2 billion cubic feet a year. ### Clay Creek A shallow oil field near Chappell Hill at about 2,000 feet, where Aethon Energy permitted 17 new vertical wells in 2026. Counties ## Communities we see in Washington County title Brenham Burton Chappell Hill Independence Wherever your tract sits in Washington County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/), or start with how to [sell Texas mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/texas/). ### Inherited Texas minerals? Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: [inherited mineral rights in Texas, what heirs should do](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/texas/). [What Texas mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/texas/), information only, with this month's activity. ### The Texas mineral owner's guide Everything a Texas owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up. [Read the Texas guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/texas/) [Every oil and gas operator in Texas](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/operators/texas/), with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything. Questions ## Straight answers for Washington County owners What are mineral rights worth in Washington County? It depends on whether your tract is in a Magnolia or GeoSouthern chalk unit, how many laterals it has and will get, and your decimal, with the caveat that Washington County wells make condensate and gas rather than oil, so the value tracks gas prices more than a Burleson County interest does. Only 10 fields and 25 operators report here, which makes the research straightforward. We value off the actual wells and permits and show the work, free. Can I be force-pooled in Texas? Not the way Oklahoma or Louisiana owners are. Texas has no general forced pooling; the Mineral Interest Pooling Act is narrow and rarely used. Your tract joins a unit because you or a prior owner signed a lease with a pooling clause or a ratification, so the lease language, not a commission order, decides what you are owed. Does Texas have a dormant mineral act that can take unused minerals? No. Texas has no dormant mineral statute, so an unleased, unproduced mineral interest stays in the family indefinitely. What does happen is that royalty money an operator cannot deliver goes to the Texas Comptroller as unclaimed property after three years, where it waits at ClaimItTexas. We check it for every owner we talk to. What does it cost me to sell? Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive. ## Before you sign anything in Washington County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [How to sell mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [how to sell oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [Who buys mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/who-buys-mineral-rights/), the five kinds of buyer compared, and [the companies that buy mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) and how to check them - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Washington County minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster. Prefer the phone? Call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day. In a hurry? [Text a photo of a royalty check stub](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/text-your-check/) to [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and our [preliminary offer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/preliminary-offer/) puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide. Your Name Phone Number Email Address Where are your minerals located? 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